so between all of us, can't we find the answer...or at least beat up someone
at MS until we get an answer?

J.

"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:

And me three. XP fine, Vista - no good.

jcoane wrote:

"Double9s" wrote:

Anybody find a solution? I'm stumped, gonna have to call MS soon.

I have the exact same problem...just started happening. I have a double boot
system and when I go to XP, the cd reads and autoplays fine. The problem is
somewhere in Vista. I don't have a solution but I hope to find it here.

I had a long chat with Dell -- bottom line -- they suggest a Vista
reinstall. Problem is with Vista and reinstall is only solution. Also a
problem with dual boots so they suggest clean install only w/o dual boot. Fir
me a royal pain because i have to back up and reinstall all my software.

Oh, well, unless anyone has some other idea, this is where I am at.

Jim

"jcoane" wrote:

so between all of us, can't we find the answer...or at least beat up someone
at MS until we get an answer?

J.

"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:

And me three. XP fine, Vista - no good.

jcoane wrote:

"Double9s" wrote:

Anybody find a solution? I'm stumped, gonna have to call MS soon.

I have the exact same problem...just started happening. I have a double boot
system and when I go to XP, the cd reads and autoplays fine. The problem is
somewhere in Vista. I don't have a solution but I hope to find it here.

There were some posts in Vista install setup newsgroups and some KB
articles about removing upper and lower filters. I only had an upper
filter and when I followed the KB article I now have a system that needs
repair G. My problem is twofold - Vista would not install from the
CD/DVR drive - it booted, started and then whined about needing drivers.
I installed using an older DVD drive. Then I replaced the old drive
with the new one and Vista said it found drivers. It shows the CD but
not the files on it. At this point who knows? I'm going to repair
later (I'm on XP now) and see what else I can find but it is a common
problem. Nice shiny new OS can't handle an age-old (or almost age-old)
standard like ATAPI. It should fall back to the lowest denominator.


jcoane wrote:
I had a long chat with Dell -- bottom line -- they suggest a Vista
reinstall. Problem is with Vista and reinstall is only solution. Also a
problem with dual boots so they suggest clean install only w/o dual boot. Fir
me a royal pain because i have to back up and reinstall all my software.

Oh, well, unless anyone has some other idea, this is where I am at.

Jim

"jcoane" wrote:

so between all of us, can't we find the answer...or at least beat up someone
at MS until we get an answer?

J.

"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:

And me three. XP fine, Vista - no good.

jcoane wrote:
"Double9s" wrote:

Anybody find a solution? I'm stumped, gonna have to call MS soon.
I have the exact same problem...just started happening. I have a double boot
system and when I go to XP, the cd reads and autoplays fine. The problem is
somewhere in Vista. I don't have a solution but I hope to find it here.

I've been following this post because I've had the same problem. After about
5 hours on the phone with a Dell tech who was controlling my computer via
Dell Connect, the problem was solved. I don't know exactly what the problem
was, but my support case number was 167405141. I hope this helps you...

"Double9s" wrote:

This is a Vista problem. When I open my CD drive or my DVD drive and insert
a new disc, like a game, Windows doesn't recognize that I've done so. The
autorun doesn't run. In my computer, it still shows the title of the last
disc that was in there. And when I doubleclick the drive I get an error. The
only way to run anything is to "explore" the disc and open the program. It's
only been this way for a couple weeks, wasn't always like that.

"Tony D" wrote:

I've been following this post because I've had the same problem. After about
5 hours on the phone with a Dell tech who was controlling my computer via
Dell Connect, the problem was solved. I don't know exactly what the problem
was, but my support case number was 167405141. I hope this helps you...

"Double9s" wrote:

This is a Vista problem. When I open my CD drive or my DVD drive and insert
a new disc, like a game, Windows doesn't recognize that I've done so. The
autorun doesn't run. In my computer, it still shows the title of the last
disc that was in there. And when I doubleclick the drive I get an error. The
only way to run anything is to "explore" the disc and open the program. It's
only been this way for a couple weeks, wasn't always like that.

Built new sli computer last month.After playing games for about a week my
dvd/rw/cdrw no longer recognized games.Replaced it with a new HP lightscribe
model.and it worked again.Now it is messed up.I noticed that when the
starforce did the disc check that theplayer sounded like it was trying to go
off the edge of the dvd.I just installed the 3rd player and this time i will
not play any games that use starforce verification..This might not have
anything to do with your problems but i thought i would post it since it
seems to have solved mine.TNX

"Tony D" wrote:

I've been following this post because I've had the same problem. After about
5 hours on the phone with a Dell tech who was controlling my computer via
Dell Connect, the problem was solved. I don't know exactly what the problem
was, but my support case number was 167405141. I hope this helps you...

"Double9s" wrote:

This is a Vista problem. When I open my CD drive or my DVD drive and insert
a new disc, like a game, Windows doesn't recognize that I've done so. The
autorun doesn't run. In my computer, it still shows the title of the last
disc that was in there. And when I doubleclick the drive I get an error. The
only way to run anything is to "explore" the disc and open the program. It's
only been this way for a couple weeks, wasn't always like that.

How can we have access to the support case you reported?

Nick


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"Tony D" wrote:

I've been following this post because I've had the same problem. After about
5 hours on the phone with a Dell tech who was controlling my computer via
Dell Connect, the problem was solved. I don't know exactly what the problem
was, but my support case number was 167405141. I hope this helps you...

"Double9s" wrote:

This is a Vista problem. When I open my CD drive or my DVD drive and insert
a new disc, like a game, Windows doesn't recognize that I've done so. The
autorun doesn't run. In my computer, it still shows the title of the last
disc that was in there. And when I doubleclick the drive I get an error. The
only way to run anything is to "explore" the disc and open the program. It's
only been this way for a couple weeks, wasn't always like that.